Week 1 Jan. 8: Introduction and Questions

• The Problem
• The Solution and Approach
• Schedule
• Requirements
• Bibliography
• Library, VR Lab

• The Pictorial Tradition in Chrétien's Perceval and its Continuations
• Other illustrations of Chrétien
• Ecclesia and Synagoga
• Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival
• Precious Stones
Discussion topics: Chrétien de Troyes's other romances; Lapidaries; Old and New Testament typology: Verdun Altarpiece/Klosterneuburg Ambo

• Opening of Estoire
• Legends about Joseph
• Christ and the Hermit
• The Trinity
• Pseudo-Gospels
• The Last Supper
• The Crucifixion
• The Entombment
• Old Testament Sacrifice

Discussion topics: Old and New Testament Typology; San Vitale, Ravenna: Sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham and Melchisedeck; Passion iconography.  Santa Sabina Doors  

• The Grail Liturgy in Estoire 
  
• The Grail Liturgy in Queste
• The Grail Liturgy in Tavola Ritonda
• Old Testament Ark
• Christian Liturgies
• Sacred Vessels
• Bronze Age Vessel
• Gundestrup Cauldron
• Sutton Hoo: Large Hanging Bowl
• Ardagh chalice and Derrynaflan chalice and paten
• Other Sacred Vessels

Week V Feb. 5:  Healing and wounding in Estoire and Queste
Midterm practice

• The Blinding of Nascien
• The Healing and Wounding of King Alphasem
• T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land; Jessie L. Weston
• Healing of the wounded knight
• Healing of the Fisher King
• Bloodletting
• Medicine

Discussion topics: aspects of medieval medical illustration

Week VI:  Feb. 12:  Eucharistic miracles, relics of the Passion

• Christ's Wounds, The Holy Blood, and the Miraculous Host
• Eucharistic Miracles
• Relics of the True Cross
• Passion Relics: Nails, Thorns
  

Discussion topics: Matthew Paris's account of the Westminster Holy Blood relic

Week VII Feb. 19: The Architectural Context

• Jerusalem, The Holy Sepulchre
• London: Temple Church
• Cambridge: Church of the Holy Sepulchre 
  

Week VIII Feb. 26: MIDTERM

Week IX March 4: Copies of the Holy Sepulchre
Choose Written Paper Topic by today

• Easter Sepulchres and Holy Sepulchre Copies
  
• Shrines: Carnegie Shrine
• Shrines: Goldenes Rössel
• Foot Reliquaries
• Arm Reliquaries
• Head Reliquaries

Statue Reliquaries: Sainte Foi

House-shaped reliquaries: Charlemagne, Three Magi, Tournai Virgin Shrine, Gertrude of Nivelles

• Grail appearances
• Chapels and castles
• Sainte-Chapelle
• Karlstein
• Mantua

• Solomon's ship, its wood, and its contents
• Estoire: Solomon's enchanted Ship
  
• Nascien and Solomon's ship
• Queste: Solomon's enchanted ship
  
• Perceval, Boort, Galaad, Perceval's sister and Solomon's ship
• Queste: Perceval's Dead Sister; Mort Artu: The Damsel of Escalot
• Arthur returns the sword
• Arthur sails to Avalon

Week XIII April 1:  Medieval Battle and Tournament
Written Paper Due

• Tournament and battle in the Grail Quest
• Arms and Armour
• Saints: George, Edmund, Michael, Margaret, Catherine<>
• <>Livre d'images de Madame Marie, Paris, BNF, nouvelle acquisition française 16251 http://mandragore.bnf.fr/jsp/rechercheExperte.jsp
  

Week XIV  April 8:  Medieval Chivalry: Life at Court

<>The Chivalric Context: knighting, tournament, Tournoi de Chauvency,
heraldry, 
• Nine Worthies
• Texts: Lancelot (Vulgate Cycle), opening section (ed. Sommer III, tr. Lacy ed.); education of Lancelot
• Christine de Pizan, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry, tr. Sumner Willard, ed. Charity Cannon Willard
• The book of chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny : text, context, and translation / Richard W. Kaeuper and Elspeth Kennedy, Philadelphia, 1996

The Cultural Context: hunting with dogs, hunting with falcons, horse management

Week XV April 15:  Review  Rennes 255
Written papers returned